Writings of the Rev. Thomas Becon: Chaplain to Archbishop Cranmer and Prebendary of CanterburyReligious Tract Society, 1831 - 512 pages |
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... Paul's Cross , and to burn his little treatises , which had attracted considerable notice . Some of them had been printed under the name of Theodore Basil , * and were prohibited in the proclamation against heretical books , in July ...
... Paul's Cross , and to burn his little treatises , which had attracted considerable notice . Some of them had been printed under the name of Theodore Basil , * and were prohibited in the proclamation against heretical books , in July ...
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... Paul . Desiring greatly to see him , I bade my friends in the Peak farewell , and made haste towards him . When I came to him , I not only rejoiced to see him in health , but also gave God thanks that he was so well placed and provided ...
... Paul . Desiring greatly to see him , I bade my friends in the Peak farewell , and made haste towards him . When I came to him , I not only rejoiced to see him in health , but also gave God thanks that he was so well placed and provided ...
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... Paul and his godly doctrine . Notwithstanding this , he , yea rather God in him , whose cause he handled , got the victory , and it came to pass according to his teaching . Neither was I absent when he inveighed against empty works ...
... Paul and his godly doctrine . Notwithstanding this , he , yea rather God in him , whose cause he handled , got the victory , and it came to pass according to his teaching . Neither was I absent when he inveighed against empty works ...
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... Paul alive again ; and putting away all unscemliness , set him forth in his native colours , so that now he is both seen , read , and heard with great pleasure by them that labour in the study of his most godly epistles . And as he ...
... Paul alive again ; and putting away all unscemliness , set him forth in his native colours , so that now he is both seen , read , and heard with great pleasure by them that labour in the study of his most godly epistles . And as he ...
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... Paul's cross in the following year , and the lord mayor petitioned archbishop Parker , requesting his grace to prevail upon Becon to preach one of the Spital Sermons . After this time he seems to have resided chiefly at Canterbury ...
... Paul's cross in the following year , and the lord mayor petitioned archbishop Parker , requesting his grace to prevail upon Becon to preach one of the Spital Sermons . After this time he seems to have resided chiefly at Canterbury ...
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Page 96 - His marvellous light: which in time past were not a people, but are now the People of God: which had not obtained mercy, but now have obtained mercy.
Page 435 - Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you ? If any man defile the temple of God, him shall God destroy ; for the temple of God is holy, which temple ye are.
Page 19 - A good man out of the good treasure of his heart bringeth forth that which is good ; and an evil man out of the evil treasure of his heart bringeth forth that which is evil : for of the abundance of the heart his mouth speaketh.
Page 444 - That ye may be blameless and harmless, the sons of God, without rebuke, in the midst of a crooked and perverse nation, among whom ye shine as lights in the world...
Page 189 - Like as the hart desireth the water-brooks : so longeth my soul after thee, O God. My soul is athirst for God, yea, even for the living God...
Page 68 - Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him. For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world. And the world passeth away, and the lust thereof: but he that doeth the will of God abideth for ever.
Page 435 - If any man come to me, and hate not his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brethren, and sisters, yea, and his own life also, he cannot be my disciple.
Page 354 - Lord, now lettest thou thy servant depart in peace according to thy word, for mine eyes have seen thy salvation which thou hast prepared before the face of all people; a light to lighten the Gentiles, and the glory of thy people Israel.
Page 57 - Their throat is an open sepulchre ; with their tongues they have used deceit; the poison of asps is under their lips: Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness: Their feet are swift to shed blood: Destruction and misery are in their ways: And the way of peace have they not known: There is no fear of God before their eyes.
Page 222 - And the fear of you and the dread of you shall be upon every beast of the earth, and upon every fowl of the air...